Shiva finally found something about the soul, in the myriad of arts in his head.
The first is Soul Manipulation: Users can create shape and manipulate the soul, the incorporeal and immortal essence of a living thing, souls are usually most obviously present in sentient beings. At some level all biological organisms have souls, and even non-biological entities (such as rivers and mountains) possess something that is analogous to a soul. Most users have to learn to control their own soul first and expand from there, some may be able to learn how to tap into the essence of everything living.
The second is Spiritual Force Manipulation: User can create, shape and manipulate their own or others' spiritual power, which is generated by every sentient being that possesses a soul, or in places with powerful spiritual influence. They can convert it into various forms of energy, manifest it into solid form, or merge into existing objects.
"This is crazy! There are so many techniques, and so many versions of the same power. Like for soul manipulation:
Afterlife Marking
Soul-Bound Armor
Soul-Bound Entity
Soul-Bound Power
Soul-Bound Weapon
Soul Empowerment
Soul Link
Soul Portal Creation
Soul Replication
Soulnado Generation
Spirit Physiology
Spiritual Aura
Spiritual Energy Physiology
And for Spiritual Force Manipulation:
Soul Distribution
Soul Speed
Soul Enhanced Speed
Spirit Magic
Spiritual Armor
Spiritual Aura
Spiritual Blade Construction
Spiritual Combat
Spiritual Defense
Spiritual Disease Manipulation
Spiritual Element Manipulation
Spiritual Energy Physiology
Spiritual Flight
Spiritual Teleportation
and Spiritual Particle Manipulation:
The user can manipulate the spiritual particle component of all souls and objects in spiritual planes of existence, and available in the material world in its atmosphere. They can form constructs like weapons, absorb surrounding spiritual particles and even manipulate the spiritual particles of souls. And the techniques are:
Ethereal Manipulation
Soul Energy Constructs
Spiritual Armor
Spiritual Blade Construction
Spiritual Bow Construction
Soul Manipulation
Spiritual Element Manipulation
Spiritual Electricity Manipulation by controlling the spiritual electrons.
Spiritual Flame Manipulation by igniting the particles.
Spiritual Ice Manipulation by freezing the particles.
Spiritual Light Manipulation by controlling spiritual photons.
Tachyon Manipulation by controlling the spiritual tachyons.
Spiritual Energy Conversion
Spiritual Force Manipulation
Spiritual Healing
Shiva was completely astonished by the amount of techniques and variations of the techniques that are present in the "Soul Sutra". as the name implies, The "Soul Sutra" is all about the soul and everything that has to do with it.
In the Sutra, there are ranks for the soul's strength. The ranks are like this:
Rank 0 - 99: Mortal
Rank 1 - 10 - Spirit Scholar
Rank 11 - 20 - (Rank 1 Spirit Master)
Rank 21 - 30 : (Rank 2 Spirit Master)
Rank 31 - 40 : (Rank 3 Spirit Master)
Rank 41 - 50 : (Rank 4 Spirit Master)
Rank 51 - 60 : (Rank 5 Spirit Master)
Rank 61 - 70 : (Rank 6 Spirit Master)
Rank 71 - 80 : (Rank 7 Spirit Master)
Rank 81 - 90 : (Rank 8 Spirit Master)
Rank 91 - 98 : (Rank 9 Spirit Master)
Rank 99 : (Rank 10 Spirit Master)
Rank 100 ~ 149: God (4th Dimensional)
Rank 100 : God Officer
Rank 100 ~ 109 : 3rd Class God
Rank 110 ~ 119 : 2nd Class God
Rank 120 ~ 129: 1st Class God
Rank 130 - 139: Half-God king
Rank 140~149: Quasi-God King
Rank 150 - ???: God king (5th dimensional)
Dao Ring Levels
God Officer
3rd Class God
2nd Class God
1st Class God
Half-God king
God King
"There are so many applications for Spirit Energy! There are different names for it as well. From Reishi to Yin qi.
"Let's try this now"
Shiva began to study the "Soul Sutra".
Even though Shiva wants to stay focused on the sword and become a sword immortal, if he ever loses or gets' his sword taken, he can't leave himself completely helpless in a situation like that.
So, instead of solely focusing on the sword, Shiva will use his Spirit Energy to utterly crush his opponents with a single movement or even just eye contact.
Shiva is now feeling the wisps' of his spirit energy in his soul.
Suddenly!
Boom
"Ahh"
Shiva screamed from the amount of pressure of his soul energy directly landing on his body.
What Shiva didn't understand is, why is soul so strong!?
Since Shiva started to cultivate the Yggdrasil Art, he will experience an all around tempering.
From his hair to his soul. Every part of him will eventually be comparable to the Yggdrasil tree from Norse mythology.
The Yggdrasil tree from Norse mythology is an impenetrable and un-dying force of nature. The vitality alone could squash Norse gods.
Shiva stopped struggling under his pressure and let up on it.
The ground, grass, rocks, and trees two meters around him were absolutely crushed due to his spirit pressure.
Shiva was silent for a few moments trying to situate himself.
"Damn!" yelled Shiva
For Shiva that was a anime fan in his past life was totally exhilarated.
"Let's just calm myself and think"
...
Ten Minutes Later
Shiva was in his cave, lying on the stone platform with his eyes shut.
He was thinking
'well this is cool'.
Shiva is examining his meridians and acupoints to figure out where he could channel his spirit energy into his circulatory system.
Although he doesn't know how or why spirit energy is generated in the soul.
One should know that...
Spirit Qi is a source of energy. It was like air. It exist everywhere throughout the planet with some places denser and others thinner. You can't manipulate it like you can with Spirit Energy.
Where as a Spirit Energy user can create, shape and manipulate their own or others' spiritual power, which is generated by every sentient being that possesses a soul, or in places with powerful spiritual influence. They can convert it into various forms of energy, manifest it into solid form, or merge into existing objects.
In simpler terms; Spirit Qi comes from the environment. That's why Shiva wished for an extremely high affinity for nature. Then we have Spirit Energy; This energy comes' from the mind, soul, and conciseness. That's another reason why Shiva wished for supreme talent in the mage/magus arts.
Although he is still young, he has the mind and attention span of an middle aged man.
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Míng jié looked sheepish as he replied "I apologize old man, it wasn't my intention to disturb your meditation."
Although he was the direct disciple of the old man, he was more like a grandson to him.
The old man opened one of his eyes and replied with a low and hoarse voice, "What wrong?"
Míng jié was worried if what he had to say was going to upset the old man. He was quite famous for his bad temper.
"A inner court disciple informed me that were spiritual fluctuations down below".
Although he knew that his master would not be too interested in worldly affairs, he still decided to tell him.
"Hmmm? Inner court disciple? Who?" The old man is now semi-intrigued
"Yes master!?"
'Is master interested? Thought Ming Jie
"Tell me, what exactly did this disciple sense that made you, my personal disciple, come here so early in the morning?".
"It was something that contained a trace of the void, but it was a little weak and didn't contain much spiritual energy"
Now the old man is intrigued. But Míng can't tell how deep his masters thoughts are just from looking at his face, so he must wait until his master speaks.
Míng jié was still thinking when his master suddenly spoke
"Míng jié, bring me there…"